Ompteda (noble family)
Ompteda is the name of a native to the Netherlands originating friesländischen and Lower Saxon noble family .
history
The family belongs to the Frisian nobility , belonged to the family of Frisian chiefs and came from Ompta op 't Zandt in the village of ' t Zand in the municipality of Loppersum (Groningen) . Here it is first proven since 1317 with Adulphus Ombteda . The secured line of tribe begins with Hermann Ompteda on Ompta around 1500. Heinrich (Hendrik) Ompteda (1552–1620) came to the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg as a religious refugee during the Eighty Years War and became a secret councilor and Drost in Scharnebeck . His descendants acquired state parliament goods in the principalities of Lüneburg and Calenberg , in the county of Hoya and in the duchy of Oldenburg . in the 19th century it belonged to the Calenberg-Grubenhagen landscape and the Hoya-Diepholz landscape .
Several representatives of the family worked for generations in administration and the military in the Guelph territories of today's Lower Saxony .
The Prussian recognition of the Freiherrnstandes took place through the highest cabinet order on September 8, 1874 for the cousins or brothers Ludwig (1828–1899) and Karl, Christian and Ludwig (1855–1915) and on May 19, 1907 for the Hanoverian court marshal a. D. Wilhelm von Ompteda (1832-). This was also registered in the Saxon nobility register on June 19, 1908.
Possessions
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a golden (variant: black), two-headed eagle in silver, from whose wing Saxons (wing bones) a green clover stem with a three-leaved leaf rises. On the helmet with gold-silver covers between an open, golden (black) eagle, the clover angel was flying . The helmet covers are gold (black) and silver.
The coat of arms can also be found with two inward- looking , golden eagles as shield holders and the Latin motto : Aquilae Nesciunt Muscas (German: eagles don't care about flies ). A variant of the motto is: Unite . In an earlier variant of the coat of arms, which can be found in Bassum Abbey , the wings of the double eagle on the Saxons are each with a green shamrock on a long stem.
Coat of arms ex-libris by Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda
Coat of arms at Hermann Grote : Book of gender and coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hanover / 1852
Coat of arms in J. Siebmacher's large and general coat of arms book 1886
Coat of arms of the village of 't Zand
Representative
- Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda (1746–1803), German lawyer and politician
- Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von Ompteda (1765–1815), German officer
- Conrad Engelbrecht von Ompteda († 1768?), Lord of Morsum
- Ludwig von Ompteda (civil servant) (1828–1899), German civil servant and court servant
- Ludwig von Ompteda (officer) (1855–1915), German lieutenant general
- Ludwig Karl Georg von Ompteda (1767-1854), German diplomat
- Friedrich von Ompteda (1772-1819), German diplomat
- Wilhelm von Ompteda (1832–), court marshal of Georg V (Hanover)
- Georg von Ompteda (1863–1931), German writer
- Otto Freiherr von Ompteda (1864–1934), German major general
- Karin von Ompteda , designer, professor, OCAD University
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description. With historical and documentary evidence. Volume 2: L-Z . TO Weigel, Leipzig 1853 ( full text ), p. 327f.
- Dieter Brosius: Ompteda, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 534 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN 0435-2408
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kneschke (lit.)